“It
boils down to this.Machines are no
better than the men who make them.If
you build them right then that’s how they work, but if you screw up, the
machines run mad.”–from
“Patlabor”

Burter:“I’m your worst nightmare.”

Son
Goku: “I’m not afraid of dreams.”–‘DragonBall
Z’

“Sorry,
I saw an opening that seemed to scream out attack…so I did.”–Son Goku from
‘Dragonball Z’

“You
can never rest if you want to stay on top.”–Mr. Satan from
‘Dragonball Z’

“Just
because you're tall and muscle-bound doesn't mean I can't stomp you pal.”–Krillin from
‘Dragonball’

COMICS

CALVIN
AND HOBBES by BILL WATTERSON

“If
you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.”–Calvin

“Getting
an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”–Calvin

“There's
an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun
it is.”–Calvin

“I
go to school but I never learn what I want to know.”–Calvin

“It's
only work if somebody makes you do it.”–Calvin

“If
people could put rainbows in zoos, they’d do it.”–Hobbes

“Planet
Bog--Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere from poisonous
gases....But aside from that, it's
not much like Earth.”–Spaceman
Spiff

“To
make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.”–Calvin

“So
basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through
conformity in brand-name selection?”–Hobbes

“I
say consider this day seized!”–Hobbes

“There’s
more to this world than just people you know.”–Hobbes

“Looks
like you’ve been building some character!”–Calvin’s Father

“If
you have [an answering] machine, you feel obligated to return a bunch or calls
you’d rather not have received in the first place. Without a machine,
you can just let the phone ring, and eventually the caller gives up and you
don’t have to talk to him.”–Calvin’s
Father

“How
touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and
beer conglomerates. Who’d have ever guessed product consumption, popular
entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously. It’s a beautiful
world, all right.”–Calvin’s
Father

Calvin:
“You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.”

Hobbes:
“That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.”

Calvin:
“…yeah…”

Calvin:
“You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? HA! Where are the
rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating
cities?”

Hobbes:
“Frankly, I’m not sure people have the brains to manage the technology
they’ve got.”

Hobbes:
“Well, the important thing is that we tried our best.”

Calvin:
“The important thing is that we lost!”

Hobbes:
“Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into
winners and losers.”

Calvin:
“What’s the point of trying if you can’t be a winner?”

Calvin:
“I don’t see how anyone could ever fall in love. People are jerks.”

Hobbes:
“Sometimes they are, but look at all the colors on the trees today.”

Calvin:
“Yeah? So what?”

Hobbes:
“I think it’s more fun to see something like this with someone than just by
yourself.”

Calvin:
“Look at these TV commercials. Each one is a jumble of lightning quick,
unrelated images and film techniques. It duplicates the effect of rapidly
flipping through channels. It’s a barrage of non-linear free association.”

Hobbes:
“I guess they’re admitting that a 15 second commercial exceeds the American
attention span by a good 14 seconds.”

Calvin:
“If computers can think, what will people be better at than machines?”

Hobbes:
“Irrational behavior.”

Calvin:
“I always have to postpone what I want to do for what I have to
do!”

Calvin’s
Father: “Welcome to the World.”

Calvin:
“Can you make a living playing silly games?”

Calvin’s
Father: “Actually, you can be among the most overpaid people on the planet.”

“Life
is like topography, Hobbes.There
are summits of happiness and success... ...Flat stretches of boring routine...
...And valleys of frustration and failure.”–Calvin

“Happiness
is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of
excess.”–Calvin

“I
used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the
purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit
clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable
fog!”–Calvin

“The
secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!”–Calvin

“I’d
planned to take the day off and spend time with a couple of buddies. My buddies
travel light and they’re fun to have around. One travels in a holster, and the
other in a hip flask.”–Tracer
Bullet

PEANUTS
by CHARLES SCHULZ

“Having
a large audience does not, of course, prove that something is necessarily good,
and I subscribe to the theory that only a creation that speaks to succeeding
generations can truly be labeled art.But
it really does not matter what you are called, or where your work is placed, as
long as it brings some kind of joy to some person someplace.”–Charles Shulz

“A
‘C’?I got a ‘C’ on my coat hanger sculpture?May I ask a question?Was I judged on the piece of sculpture itself?If so, is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art?Or was I judged on my talent?If so, is it right that I be judged on a part of life over which I have
no control?If I was judged on my effort, then I was judged unfairly, for I tried as
hard as I could!Was I judged on what I had learned about this project?If so, then were not you, my teacher, also being judged on your ability
to transmit your knowledge to me?Are you willing to share my ‘C’?”–Sally Brown

“I
ate too much.. I drank too much.. And I danced too much...Let's do it again tomorrow night.”– Snoopy

“You
try to warn them that the world has gone mad, but they won't listen.”–Snoopy

“I'm
not a poor loser... I'm a good loser!I'm
so good at it I lose all the time!”–Charlie
Brown

“Sally:I'm making a list of all the things I've learned in life... Well
actually, I'm making two lists.

Charlie
Brown:Why is one list longer than the other?

Sally:These are the things I've learned the hard way!”

“Considering
I don't do anything, I lead a very active life.”–Rerun VanPelt

“The
way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere!”–Linus VanPelt

“There
are three things I have learned never to discuss with people.Religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin.”–Linus VanPelt

“There
are three things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a
crackling fire, and a Zamboni clearing the ice.”–Charlie Brown

“I’m
the kind of person who is kind of hard to get to know I guess… My personality
doesn’t lie right on the surface… the real me is deep… but I’m well
worth all the time it takes to understand me… In other words, to know me is to
love me!”–Lucy
VanPelt

“I
love mankind…It’s people I can’t stand!!”–Linus VanPelt

“I
have never pretended to be able to solve moral issues.”–Charlie Brown

“Can
you cure deep down, black bottom of the well, no hope, end of the world
loneliness?”–Charlie Brown

“What
sort of world would this be if a person’s destiny could be controlled by such
a stupid thing as a chain letter?”–Linus
VanPelt

“Charlie
Brown: …What can you do when life seems to be passing you by?

Lucy:
…See the horizon over there?See
how big this world is?See how much
room there is for everybody?…There
are no other worlds for you to live in …right?

Charlie
Brown: Right.

Lucy:
You were born to live in this world …right?

Charlie
Brown: Right.

Lucy:
WELL, LIVE IN IT THEN!”

“I
feel torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.”–Lucy VanPelt

“I
don’t do flowers… I do underground comics…”–Rerun VanPelt

“At
last... A chick flick with explosions!”–Leroy,
from ‘The Lockhorns’ by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner

“It’s
amazing how much pressure we put on ourselves when we assign the same degree of
importance to everything...”–Jeremy
Owen

“Calling
it a ‘fortune’ cookie is as empty as its nutritional value!!”–Obviousman from ‘Non Sequitur’

“With
the joy of clarity comes the dismay of reality.”–from ‘Non-Sequitur’

“Shomebody
has to shpeak up for the animals!It
might as well be ME!”–Mooch

from
Patrick McDonnells’s ‘Mutts’

“I’m
sick of women singing about broke men, sick of men singing about loose women,
sick of award shows, sick of name-brand clothes… From this moment forth I
stand as the antithesis of black popular culture!!I am the anti-cool!!I
hereby declare myself…a nerd!!–Huey
from Aaron McGruder’s ‘The Boondocks’

Dilbert’s
Mother: “I’m not saying you’re boring; it’s just that everything you
talk about is boring.”

Dilbert:“That’s the same as saying I’m boring.”

Dilbert’s
Mother: “Only when you talk.”–from ‘Dilbert’

“It’s
like the condom has been removed from my brain, letting it blow its load of
wisdom all over my mind.”–from
‘The Wendy Project’

“Umbrellas
are for sissies!”–from
‘Dennis
the Menace‘

“How
come you never say, ‘Winning isn’t everything,’ when we actually win?”–little child to his father from Laugh
Parade in ‘Parade’ magazine